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Ruby is the programming language we use on the backend. Goals After finishing this lesson you should be able to...
Git is our version control system. Goals Understand why we use git. Learn how to work with your local repository...
makandra is responsible for maintaining about 75 Ruby projects. These projects use a large number of different versions for Ruby...
Rails is our web framework. Goals Be able to write a simple Rails application. Understand how Rails talks to the...
Understand why we test: Low defect rate without a QA department. Customer acceptance testing can concentrate on new features...
Learn to create test data effectively using factories. Decouple tests by having each test start with an empty database...
Basic validations Read the Rails Guide on ActiveRecord Validations. You should have an overview which kinds of validations are built...
Understand at least the following CSS concepts: Classes Selecting elements for styling Basic styling (color, typography, spacing)
JavaScript is a scripting language supported by all browsers. Browsers don't speak Ruby, so if we want to implement...
JavaScript code can access and manipulate the browser's DOM tree. Using JavaScript we can add interactive behavior to our...
Learn to read and write Haml. Understand the different attributes syntaxes (curly braces vs. round parentheses) Exercises Convert MovieDB...
In this card we will learn to write code that scales with a large number of database records. We will...
Read the following chapters from The Pragmatic Programmer, anniversary edition (in our library): Chapter 1, Topic 3: Software Entropy...
When your code does not behave as expected, you can use a debugger statement ("breakpoint") at any point in your...
Built-in matchers Get an overview of all the matchers that are built into RSpec. Play with some of...
makandra's development process Learn about our process. The squares represent the state of the issue in Linear:
Learn Enough Command Line to be Dangerous (it's in our library => Google Drive) CLI tricks every developer should...
Read the Rails Guide about Active Record migrations Understand why we never use models in migrations. Checkout the repository...
We use Selenium WebDriver integrated with Cucumber/Capybara for full-stack integration testing. Try and use it Your forked MovieDB should...
Understand the differences between git diff and git diff --staged (or git diff --cached) Understand the difference between git...
You have the following HTML structure:
If you want to run Javascript code whenever someone clicks on a ...
..., you...
A common task in web applications is to add client-side JavaScript behavior to existing HTML elements.
What is a Cookie? Google it if you do not know. How are cookies transferred between your browser and...